On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Jason <jhelf...@e-e.com> wrote: > You can do it this way in the ports system: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/slow-patch.html > > I handle all my patching for ports this way.
Ok. I guess I'll stop my laziness and RT-W-FM! Thanks! Alejandro Imass > > -jgh > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:35:30PM -0400, Alejandro Imass thus spake: >> >> Hi, >> >> I need to modify a file from a port before building. Specifically, the >> sane-backends pnm.c driver has a bug and the folks at the original >> project has not fixed for a while. I need to modify pnm.c in the work >> directory before compiling. What is an elegant way of doing this? If I >> make and then modify, the main make file does not see the change made >> in the file and will not recompile. And since there is no actual >> makefile in the work subdirectory I can't compile there either! >> >> There must be a FreeBSD way of dealing with modifying a port source >> before compiling. Please advise. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Alejandro Imass >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"